>>> Prisoners should not melt either. This is ground we covered after >> Jambalaya quit. I was not happy them, on the wrong end of that, and I >> don't feel that it would be fair in any sense to keep that that way. >> This allows people to kamikazi factions and then deprive the victor of >> the possibilities prisoners present.>>The problem is that leaving all these prisoners and dead bodies around>after quits is a hole in my NP system.>>Hmmm. Okay, I've just thought of a wonderfully beautiful solution.>The real problem with the current scheme of keeping prisoners and>dead bodies around when the owning player quits is the degradation>to unsworn status, in the case of prisoners, and the auto-swear to>the resurrecting priest's faction in the case of dead bodies.>>Instead, prisoners could simply become independent, but retain their>current loyalty. Dead bodies revived without an owner, instead of>swearing to the priest's faction upon returning to life, could instead>swear to the independent player. Thus, the difficulty of obtaining>NP's from prisoners and dead bodies would be unaffected by the owning>player's QUIT.>>-->Rich Skrenta <skrenta@pbm.com>>>

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